The Hindu Business Line : Wednesday, March 05, 2003

Soft Hindutva
NOT TOO long ago, there was only plain and simple communalism, and arrayed in opposition to it were the forces of secularism. It was confusing enough to make out what either meant. Confounding the lack of clarity, appeared such new variants as ... More

FINANCIAL SCAN

Gilts: Volatility management is key
With interest rates on a secular downtrend, it was a risk-free ride for gilt investments in particular, and bonds in general. More

REFLECTIONS

Kabir magic with Tendulkar batting
FOR over a month one had not had a chat with Lachman Singh, my lone friend in Borivili. Mercifully he came back last week. He had gone to New Delhi to pick up his son, wife and dearest two-year-old grand-daughter, Utsav. His son was not doing ... More

WIDE CANVAS

Populism with a human face
DESPITE the fact that the Union Finance Minister's 2003-2004 Budget speech was perhaps even longer than the seemingly unending exercises of his illustrious predecessors (thereby stamping the exercise with the hallmark of conventionalism), there ... More

FOCUS

'Salami' reliefs for tea estates only transitory
IT is clear from a recent order of the West Bengal Government that the tea industry, which had repeatedly pleaded for withdrawal of `salami' on land that it charges for transfer of tea garden lease, except through inheritance, has to be content ... More

EAR TO THE GROUND

Fund support seen in BoB
ON a day that saw the banking sector stocks slide, Bank of Baroda (BoB) ended in the positive region on the back of sustained buying. According to dealers, a recently-much-in-news foreign mutual fund was seen buying in to the counter on ... More

ON THE HEDGE

Outlook negative on Digital, Tata Engg
THE following strategies are based on Tuesday's trading in the derivatives segment on the NSE: Equity options Digital GlobalSoft: The outlook on this stock is negative. Two factors that suggest as much are the gradual increase ... More

SENSOR

All-round selling weakens sentiment
THE stock market sentiment remained subdued, which resulted in the indices recording the second consecutive day of decline. Led by technology stocks, the benchmark indices — the BSE Sensex and the NSE S&P CNX Nifty — ended the day on ... More

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